Bones (2001)
director: | Ernest Dickerson |
release-year: | 2001 |
genres: | horror, comedy |
countries: | USA |
languages: | English |
Somebody thought a Snoop Dogg music video should be turned into a feature-length horror film, and somebody was exactly right.
1970s Snoop Dogg was the resident drug dealer, but something has gone awry and now it's modern day and there's an old man shooting at a demon dog who eats dumb white guys who don't know how to buy drugs on the street.
A group of misguided youth buy the demon dog's haunted mansion with the dream of spiffing it up, turning it into a nightclub, and impressing their business-suit-wearing dad with their unexpected business chops. Kids.
The local fortune teller and her sexy daughter swing by to tell them their nightclub is haunted and they should go back to the suburbs, but they unsurprisingly don't listen to her. They do start hitting on the sexy daughter, and she starts coming around to the haunted mansion daily despite a moderately strong belief that it is, in fact, haunted.
They find the demon dog in a bedroom, feed it a burger, and keep it as a pet.
It's a comedy-horror, but it's generally not a comedy and a horror. It kind of alternates back and forth between being one or the other, depending on the scene.
The animators are having a blast projecting ghosts and shadows on the walls. The throbbing mass of sticky demon people is particularly well done.
Eventually we learn that several of the townsfolk, including the fortune teller and the dad, covered up the violent murder of Snoop Dogg in a crack-based business deal gone wrong. Snoop's body was buried under the haunted mansion, but his Dogg spirit lived on in theā¦ well, you know, the dog.
They get reunited and Snoop comes back for revenge.
As we've seen in other demonic revenge films, i.e. Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), they burned all of their screentime on buildup and really have to jog through the remaining violence.
There's little rhyme or reason to who dies how, but they all die, of course.